On December 21st, 2001, a man by the name of Aubrey Von Mader was smoking a cigarette in his mother's backyard in West Central Oregon. As he went to toss the butt into Alsea Bay, he saw the body of a child floating along. The boy was Zachery Longo, age 4, and in the next few days, the bodies of two of his siblings and his mother would be found also floating in the bay water. But where was the patriarch of the family, con man Christian Longo? He was a fugitive in Mexico, running from the law after killing his wife and three children. And his capture and subsequent arrest would shock the nation...18 years earlier, 1983, in Willamette, Oregon, a woman by the name of Diane Downs pulled in to the McKenzie-Willamette Hospital parking lot and honked the horn. When the doctors and nurses came out to see what was going on, they found Diane hysterical, and two of her children 9-year-old Christie and five-year-old Danny, precariously close to death. Her other daughter, Cheryl, 7, was dead. All three had been shot. Diane swore that a stranger in the middle of the road had tried to take her car and then shot her children, but to say that story was suspicious would be an understatement. What was uncovered, instead, was a desperate and mentally unstable woman, who, for reasons still unknown, attempted to murder her three children, and succeeded in killing one. 91% of family annihilators are men, 9% are women. These are two such stories of the worst kind of parents imaginable. Smells Like HumansLike spending time with funny friends talking about curious human behavior. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify